Month: July 2025

Did Manichaeism ever have a presence in India?

By Sunil Kumar Answered on Quora 8 years ago in 2017 Like nearly every religious founder or seeker; Mani (216–277 C.E.), a Parthian raised in Mesopotamia in an Aramaic-speaking Jewish-Christian community known as the Elchasaites visited India in 240 A.D. On his return to Mesopotamia(modern-day Iraq); he broke with the Elchasaites and founded his own